Rio Ngumoha offered key piece of advice after historic start to Liverpool career
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The 16-year-old became the youngest scorer in Liverpool’s history, and the fourth youngest ever in the Premier League, when he came off the bench to score a 100th-minute winner against Newcastle on his top-flight debut.
And Van Dijk was delighted for the teenaged winger after his heroics at Newcastle but told him to learn from the senior figures in Liverpool’s squad.
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“Sixteen years old.
“I think if you make your Premier League debut at 16, scoring the winner, then that is a great sign of quality and being a special talent.
“But I also know you have to take it game by game.
Nowadays, if you are a football player of the highest level, it takes much more than just playing on the pitch.
“You have to deal with a lot of things off the pitch as well.
He has to have the motivation to keep working and hopefully he will have a fantastic career.”
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Van Dijk shrugged off suggestions Liverpool have defensive worries after they conceded twice against Newcastle, just as they had in the Community Shield against Crystal Palace and in the Premier League against Bournemouth.
“No, we're doing pretty well,” he insisted.
“We don't want to concede goals and I think today we conceded two goals from set-pieces.
“We defended all night pretty well but those two goals got Newcastle back in the game and gave them belief.